July 27, 2009

You have to be very careful about what information you allow about yourself on the web, as it then becomes impossible to remove again, and can come back to haunt you at some point in the future. However, a new prototype system, called ‘Vanish’, has now been developed that will destroy data after a set time limit. This new system could make privacy possible again, something that was becoming rarer and rarer in the online world we live in today.